Mapping the Landscape of Development Assistance and Cooperation in OIC Member Countries

SESRIC carries out the project on “Mapping the Landscape of Development Assistance and Cooperation in OIC Member Countries” with the aim of developing a directory of National Development Assistance Agencies and relevant stakeholders in OIC Member Countries.

SESRIC conducts the “Tendency Survey on SDG Priorities of OIC Member Countries” in accordance with the Resolution #117 of the Thirty-First Session of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that was held on 23-26 November 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The historical city of Tabriz in Iran was selected as the Capital of Islamic Tourism for 2018.

The announcement was made during the 9th Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers held on 21-23 December 2017 in Niamey, Niger, where ministers of tourism of OIC Member Countries approved Tabriz as the capital of Islamic tourism for 2018.

The capital city of the State of Palestine, al-Quds al-Sharif, was declared as the "OIC Youth Capital 2018” by The Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogues and Cooperation (ICYF-DC), announcing a year of landmark initiatives for Palestinian youth that seeks to raise international awareness of the Palestinian issue and preserve the Islamic character of al-Quds al-Sharif.

The Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) offers internships to highly motivated and successful young people at SESRIC headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, with a minimum duration of four weeks. Statistics Internship Programme seeks interns especially in the following fields: statistics, economics, business, banking and finance, mathematics and other related fields involving data literacy.